Ivica Horvat
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| Full name | Ivan Horvat | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 16 July 1926 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth |
Sisak, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (now Croatia) | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 27 August 2012 (aged 86) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Njivice near Omišalj, Croatia | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Centre-back | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1940–1945 | Ferraria Zagreb | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1945–1957 | Dinamo Zagreb | 230 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 1957–1959 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 56 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 286 | (2) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1946–1956 | Yugoslavia | 60 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1961–1964 | Eintracht Frankfurt (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1964–1965 | Eintracht Frankfurt | ||||||||||||||||
| 1967–1968 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||||||||||||||||
| 1970 | PAOK | ||||||||||||||||
| 1971–1975 | Schalke 04 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1975–1976 | Rot-Weiss Essen | ||||||||||||||||
| 1978–1979 | Schalke 04 | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Ivan "Ivica" Horvat (16 July 1926 – 27 August 2012) was a Croatian and Yugoslav professional football player and manager.
He spent most of his playing career in the 1940s and 1950s with Dinamo Zagreb, with whom he won two Federal League championships of Yugoslavia and one Marshal Tito Cup. Regarded as one of the best defenders in the country at the time, Horvat also earned 60 international caps for Yugoslavia, and was part of the national squad at the 1950 and 1954 World Cups, as well as the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, where they were silver medalists.
In 1957 he went abroad to join Eintracht Frankfurt, helping them win their first and only West German championship in 1959 before retiring from active football. He spent the next two decades working in club management, notably leading Dinamo Zagreb to their historic 1966–67 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup win, and also winning the 1972 DFB-Pokal with Schalke 04, the German club's first domestic trophy after a 14-year drought.